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March 25, 2009

Hana Abdi (21) is an activist in Sanandaj and was arrested on 4 November 2007 by intelligence agents. Abdi was recently ordered to pay a fine of approximately $30,000 instead… ...

March 18, 2009

On May 3, 2007, security agents arrested Ahmad Ghasaban, editor of the student publication Sahar. He was conditionally released in August 2008 but was again detained on 24 February 2009… ...

March 18, 2009

Nariman Mostafavi, a student activist at Amir Kabir University, was detained on 24 February by security agents at his home. He is reportedly being held in Evin prison and is… ...

March 18, 2009

Mehdi Mashayekhi, a student activist at Amir Kabir University, was detained on 24 February by security agents at his home. He is reportedly being held in Evin Prison and is… ...

March 18, 2009

Abbas Hakimzadeh, a student activist at Amir Kabir University, was detained on 24 February by security agents at his home. He is reportedly being held in Evin Prison and is… ...

March 18, 2009

Majid Tavakoli, arrested on May 9, 2007, is a student at Tehran’s Amir Kabir University and a member of the central council of the university’s Islamic Association. After being released… ...

February 25, 2009

…called on the Iranian government to immediately release all Amir Kabir students and to end its persecution and prosecution of students. The students were protesting the burial of “unknown martyrs”… ...

February 21, 2009

…at risk. The students should be released immediately and unconditionally, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. The four students are among a group of around twenty… ...

February 17, 2009

(17 February 2009) Attacks on the Baha’i community in Iran have reached alarming levels, including semi-official calls for its “utter destruction,” the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said… ...

February 1, 2009

During the past few years, Iranian universities have been experiencing a new phase of government intervention in academic affairs, which is considered a second Cultural Revolution. The present government policy… ...

February 1, 2009

The Iranian women’s rights movement is the most vibrant social movement in Iran today. Having built an extensive grassroots base, Iranian women are campaigning to fight legal gender discrimination. The… ...

January 25, 2009

Ronak Safazadeh (21), arrested on October 9, 2007, is a women’s rights activist in Sanandaj. She has been sentenced to 9 months in prison and a $208 (2 million Rial)… ...

January 19, 2009

Hadi Ghabel, an outspoken Iranian cleric, was imprisoned on April 7, beginning a 40 month term following prosecution and conviction by the Special Court for the Clergy, a body akin… ...

January 15, 2009

(15 January 2009) – The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reported that Hamdollah Namjou and Alma Ranjbar students at Shiraz University were arrested at the Intelligence Office in… ...

January 12, 2009

(12 January 2009) Six more students from Shiraz University were detained, after they appeared at the Intelligence Office in Shiraz following official summonses, the International Campaign for Human Rights in… ...

January 2, 2009

(2 January 2009) The Iranian government should immediately end its campaign of persecution against Dr. Shirin Ebadi, which has now escalated to mob threats and violence against her home, the… ...

December 5, 2008

(5 December 2008) Despite three years of persecution and prosecution and increasing threats from official organs against university students, the voices of Iranian students promoting academic freedom on university campuses… ...

November 26, 2008

…on 22 November. In the early hours of 25 November, security forces violently attacked them and other students who had gathered in their support and detained the four suspended students…. ...

November 3, 2008

Ebrahim Rashidi is a poet, writer and Mechanical Engineering graduate of Orumieh University. On 5 August 2008, he was sent to prison to begin serving his five-month prison sentence…. ...